The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings | 
pickBrunvand‘s been ploughing this furrow for quite a while now, proving that folkloristics can be...well, fun. We‘ve all heard the story: lonely motorist picks up rain-drenched hitchhiker on a country road in the middle of a stormy night. Ten miles further down the road he turns to offer him a cigarette and the guy‘s gone. Brumvand examines the richness and complexity of urban myths in a down-to-earth and accessible style. Social history at its best.
BookwormM Would you class this as short stories? Sounds like something hubby would enjoy but he will only read short stories 4y
Mistermandolin @BookwormM Not really short stories per se. The book contains analyses of testimonies and testimony-extracts describing ostensibly non-fictional encounters. 4y
BookwormM Thanks might see if the library have this that way nothing lost if he doesn‘t get on with it 4y
